I use Reason for 80% of my music, which allows me to do everything from Hip Hop to slow R&B Ballads. I love the fact that you can build a rack with unlimited units. I guess the whole things is having literally hundreds of pieces of equipment, but no extension chords and what not to trip over. (You hit the tab button and it flips the whole rack system around so you can repatch lines into different modules to experiment with the different results. Change sounds and beat patterns with just a click. I am not sure of the minimum requirements to run Reason check the requirements, I have 512 RAM and it runs perfect. Reason makes a cheap keyboard (midi capable) sound like an expensive piece of equipment, although I already had a good keyboard to. You can generate notes on your keyboard to play through Reason, or you can program your whole beat to play through Reason. Plus Reason comes with many different beats of it's own that you can chop up and slice any way that you want. Plus you can literally belch into your mic and record it as a wav pattern on your pc's system. Then import it into reason along with a rhythm pattern and have an original sound that you created.
Just playing with Reason opens your mind up to millions of different options, some you will discard, and a whole lot that you will be amazed with.
I'm still learning about it, my free time is limited. But every weekend, I am creating more and more. Reason has made it easier for me to broaden my library. I export all of my tracks done on Reason to individual tracks on my 10 Track recorder and mix it that way. Then I bounce it to a stereo track to free up all the other space.....
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